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2020-05-29 -Lurid Crime Tales-
Minneapolis: Police arrest CNN correspondent Omar Jimenez and crew on live television (video)
[CNN] CNN's Jose Omar Jimenez was taken into police custody during a live broadcast at the site of the protests in Minneapolis, after clearly identifying himself to officers. Jimenez's crew were also placed in handcuffs.
Hat tip to the police. Arresting the Communist News Network crew sends a strong, 'no cost' message to other communist thugs in the vicinity.
Posted by Besoeker 2020-05-29 09:22|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ]  Top

#1 Shi* disturbers, haul them away.
Posted by Besoeker 2020-05-29 09:27||   2020-05-29 09:27|| Front Page Top

#2 The video tells a different story. I don't see any reason to arrest the crew. They calmly ask police what they want them to do and where to go.
Posted by European Conservative 2020-05-29 09:32||   2020-05-29 09:32|| Front Page Top

#3 Aiding and abetting a civil insurrection?
Posted by Mercutio 2020-05-29 09:33||   2020-05-29 09:33|| Front Page Top

#4 /\ Pre-arranged, scripted CNN response. The CNN crew intended to be arrested. As designed, all the news networks worldwide will cover it.

Please charge the entire network with willful sedition. Arrest and imprison them all. No bond, trial date sometime in the 2022-2024 time frame.


Posted by Besoeker 2020-05-29 09:35||   2020-05-29 09:35|| Front Page Top

#5 They were all wearing surgical masks, right?
Posted by Raj 2020-05-29 09:54||   2020-05-29 09:54|| Front Page Top

#6 Besoeker, this is not the Soviet Union.
I'm a bit bewildered by some statements I read here lately.
Freedom of press wasn't guaranteed to protect journalists who agree with you. But who disagree.
Posted by European Conservative 2020-05-29 10:23||   2020-05-29 10:23|| Front Page Top

#7 From the same nutwork that had Anderson Cooper standing in water where just barely 10-20 feet away were people standing on wet but unflooded land.
Posted by Clem 2020-05-29 10:27||   2020-05-29 10:27|| Front Page Top

#8 EC - a lot of people (myself included) have seen that CNN is a political op, not a journalistic one, and antithetical to our principles, politics, and values
Posted by Frank G 2020-05-29 10:27||   2020-05-29 10:27|| Front Page Top

#9 Re: #7 - Or Becky Anderson organizing a "demonstration" in London.

And then there is just Chris Cuomo.
Posted by Clem 2020-05-29 10:29||   2020-05-29 10:29|| Front Page Top

#10 FrankG
Whatever you think of CNN, I can see no reason in that video why these journalists should be arrested.
Posted by European Conservative 2020-05-29 10:31||   2020-05-29 10:31|| Front Page Top

#11 EC, Freedom of the Press was about the technology to disseminate information of the times. The technology and vocation were once one and the same. Modern 'Press' is just about as much in obstructing, corrupting, and fabricating information rather than an open flow of information. They make their living selling print column and air time which means if there isn't a crisis, they'll make one. This, the internet, is far closer to what the founders meant by the free flow of information which is why so many seek to choke it and shut it down.
Posted by Procopius2k 2020-05-29 10:33||   2020-05-29 10:33|| Front Page Top

#12 EC, 1968 Chicago Democratic Party convention. The 'rioting' occurred around where the cameras where. It was by design and intention.
Posted by Procopius2k 2020-05-29 10:37||   2020-05-29 10:37|| Front Page Top

#13 Any CNN video needs to be taken with a large pile of salt. Were they encouraging arson or looting by their cameras? Who knows. They would edit it out
Posted by Frank G 2020-05-29 10:38||   2020-05-29 10:38|| Front Page Top

#14 If they did police would clearly have pointed this out by now.
Posted by European Conservative 2020-05-29 10:39||   2020-05-29 10:39|| Front Page Top

#15 CNN reporter, crew freed after being arrested while covering George Floyd protests
Posted by Skidmark 2020-05-29 10:47||   2020-05-29 10:47|| Front Page Top

#16 I remember in Intifada I, EC, we (serving there) were always told when a riot would occur. Because journalists would call a local contact from Tel Aviv and arrange for one - saves them time away from pubs & whores in Tel Aviv. And ISA was tapping his phone.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-05-29 10:55||   2020-05-29 10:55|| Front Page Top

#17 Ref #6: I fully agree EC. I suspect it will end sometime prior to everyone being hauled off to the gulogs (but that would improve employment numbers). It just has to stop somewhere. These culturally crazed, entitlement anarchists must be stopped.
Posted by Besoeker 2020-05-29 11:06||   2020-05-29 11:06|| Front Page Top

#18 g(r)omgoru, I don't doubt it. But Israel still has a free press.
Posted by European Conservative 2020-05-29 11:11||   2020-05-29 11:11|| Front Page Top

#19 We all know how deceptive reporting can be and often is. But this is a price we pay for press freedom.
Posted by European Conservative 2020-05-29 11:13||   2020-05-29 11:13|| Front Page Top

#20 In the land of The Democratic Farm Labor Party ... rules are a bit different.
Posted by 3dc 2020-05-29 11:20||   2020-05-29 11:20|| Front Page Top

#21 #18,19 Sure I believe in free press - Ben Franklin with a single press, one apprentice and two part time news-hounds and a bunch of unpaid correspondents, or a guy with a blog nowadays.
Multinational, multi billion company, with commercial interests in China, not so much.
And, what I was mostly referring to - do you think they only arrange/script violent riots in "Palestine"?
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-05-29 11:29||   2020-05-29 11:29|| Front Page Top

#22 Ya know, there's never a riot after a little kid's killed during a drive-by. Very little press coverage, either.

Yet it happens way more frequently than the police killing anyone.
Posted by Rob Crawford 2020-05-29 13:41||   2020-05-29 13:41|| Front Page Top

#23 
Posted by trailing wife 2020-05-29 14:37||   2020-05-29 14:37|| Front Page Top

#24 ^^ The CNN reporter reports on his experience after being released. It doesn’t sound nearly so fraught, Constitutionally, as it originally appeared.
Posted by trailing wife 2020-05-29 14:41||   2020-05-29 14:41|| Front Page Top

#25 Well we know that the 'news' nowdays is all about sensationalism. "If it bleeds - it leads!" with little regard for the casualties; Often encouraged on if it advances their agenda.

I suspect that the news media has not-so-subtley encouraged violence to get that 'bleeding story'.
Posted by CrazyFool 2020-05-29 14:44||   2020-05-29 14:44|| Front Page Top

#26 He works for CNN. He should have at least been given a full mental health evaluation before being released.
Posted by Airandee 2020-05-29 17:27||   2020-05-29 17:27|| Front Page Top

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